Our Entrepreneurs

Imad Malhas

Imad Malhas
co-founded irisguard in 2001, the world’s leading supplier of novel end-to-end
iris recognition biometric technology that authenticates identity for payments
and large-scale humanitarian deployments.
irisguard UK Ltd has its headquarters and manufacturing base in Milton
Keynes, UK and a regional office in Amman, Jordan. He serves the organisation as both its CEO
and Chief Technology Officer.

Imad pioneered the
concept of using Iris recognition to secure mass-transit national borders and
the large scale cross-country registration of millions of UNHCR refugees in the
Middle East. In 2008, he led irisguard's
deployment of the world’s first iris-enabled ATM machines, which to date have
processed over half a billion dollars in cash.
In 2013, Imad spearheaded the development of the irisguard EyePay®
platform, the world's first and only iris-enabled retail POS that is currently
used by the UN's World Food Programme in a number of supermarkets in refugee
camps across Jordan, providing the vulnerable and unbanked with the dignified financial
inclusion they are in most need of.

With the mission of
empowering financial inclusion in the blink of an eye, Imad is currently
involved in the development of irisguard's first mobile platform and Android
application.

Imad is the co-inventor on
many international patents, an Endeavor Entrepreneur since 2009 and was
recently awarded personally in 2018 with a CEO Today Europe Award.